[wix-users] Bootstrapper - Change

[sampat magi]

Do you have enablefeatureselection="yes" in bundle?

Regards
Sampat
On 17-Jun-2016 9:19 pm, "Bob Arnson" <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> MSI features must be handled in OnPlanMsiFeature, not via properties. See
> bug https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5294.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Ondrej Krc-Jediny
> Sent: Friday, 17 June, 2016 08:30
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> Subject: [wix-users] Bootstrapper - Change
>
> I have a managed bootstrapper application where I try to implement
> Change/Repair/Remove functionality (my .msi support all of them).
> I'm having problem with the feature Change functionality. After user
> selects/deselect features in my BA, I try to run:
>
> bootstrapApp.Engine.Plan(LaunchAction.Modify);
>
> but the .msi is never run, probably because of 'execute: None' - log:
>
> Planned package: instmsi, state: Present, default requested: Present, ba
> requested: Present, execute: None, rollback: None, cache: No, uncache: No,
> dependency: Register
>
> As already pointed out in this thread -
>
> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-modify-MSI-from-the-custom-bootstrapper-td7585752.html
> -
>
> in the PlanPackageBegin event, the RequestState is already Present and
> execute ActionState is not modifiable.
>
> It does the same when I try
>
> bootstrapApp.Engine.Plan(LaunchAction.Install);
>
> My MsiPackageElement looks like this
>
> <MsiPackage EnableFeatureSelection="yes" SuppressSignatureVerification="no"
> SourceFile="installer.msi" Id="instmsi">
>   <MsiProperty Name="ADDLOCAL" Value="[FEATURES]"/>
>   <MsiProperty Name="REMOVE" Value="[FEATURES_REMOVE]"/>
>   <MsiProperty Name="REINSTALL" Value="[FEATURES_REINSTALL]"/>
> </MsiPackage>
>
> For the Change functionality, I fill the ADDLOCAL and REMOVE variables
> accordingly.
>
> I don't want to run LaunchAction.Repair, because it re-installs already
> installed features (which is not how the .msi Change behaves).
>
> Is there any way to ensure that my .msi is run in such case?
> Thank You
>
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